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Awesome that you fixed this measurement error (ahem.. sorry to be boasting but... I told you so :P), but you're still not quite there. Look at the datasheet. Now look at bench. See the giant difference?

That's DIPM. Enable it and you'll have entirely correct measurements.Reply

Edit: I see that Anand said there will be DIPM-only testing in 2013. Great. Just keep in mind that all power consumption measurements you have now don't really mean anything to desktop and laptop use cases. They only apply to server workloads where DIPM doesn't exist, or workloads where the SSD is constantly hammered at maximum speed.Reply

Ahem. This is a weird place to do this, but I'm a huge fan of your work. It's truly awe-inspiring. Can't wait for the MADPSU! (And more updates in English, please. Sometimes Google Translate just doesn't cut it ;) )Reply

While performance per watt is surely there, these all fall short in absolute terms of the best 5400 RPM regular hard drives, which come in around 1.5W under load. (And regular hard drives don't care if you're writing incompressible or not.) I'd like to think the technology will get there eventually, but as with cars over the last couple of decades there seems to be a never-ending focus on (horse)power.Reply